Fly-trap.



A Patented m1; 7,, I902. 4 Z. E. DRAKE & J. C. SEMPLE.

FLY TRAP.

Applicationfiled May- 6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

: NORRIS PETERS 00.. ward-Lima. WASHINGTON, n. c.

UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZAOHARIAH E. DRAKE AND JAMES C. SEMPLE, OF MODESTO, CALIFORNIA.

FLY-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 690,566, dated January 7, 1902.

Appliestion filed May 6, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ZACHARIAH E. DRAKE and JAMES C. SEMPLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Modesto, county of Stanise the tablebefore it again emerges to the out' side. a

It also comprises details of construction, which will be morefully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a part vertical section and part longitudinal elevation of ourinvention looking along the line w a: of Fig 2. Fig. 2 is a plan, the receiver and cage being omitted.

Fig. 3 is a view of the base-ring looking along the line y y of Fig. 2.

As here shown, the base is formed in two parts A and A, having a sufficient depth, and the part A has a horizontal tabular surface upon which the receiver 2 is placed. This receiver is preferably made of wire-gauze or material which will admit light, and within it is a conical cage 3, having an opening in the apex, as at 4. The receiver and cage are fixed to a base-ring 5, which is adapted to rest upon the tabular surface of the base A, and its ring has a portion cut away, as shown at 6.

7 is a circular disk, which may have an upturned edge'or flange, and this disk is contrally fixed upon a revoluble spindle 8, which extends upwardly from the part A of "the base. The disk is so located with relation to the ring 5 of the cage that a portion of its periphery rotatesthrough the opening 6 into the cage and again passes out upon the opposite side, so that a considerable portion of the disk is also exposed outside of the cage. The disk is baited in any suitable manner, as with sugar or other substance which will Serial n 58,871. (No mtdel.)

attract flies, and as it rotates, flies which have lighted upon the disk exterior to the cage will be carried into the cage through the open space 6, which is of sufficient height for that purpose. v

Within the cage and connected with it is a segment 9, having a radius from approximately the center of revolution of the disk. This segment is raised above the tabular sur= face of A, and the edge presented to the incoming revolving disk has a flexible brush or other material, as at 10, which acts to brush the flies off the disk when they reach it. The disk then passes beneath the brush and into the inclosedportion of the segment, flies be= ing prevented from entering this portion by the brush and by the exterior rim of the segm ent,which extends down close to the tabular surface. The flies being thus brushed 0E,

the disk will fly upward toward the light, and

moving upthe interior of the cage, as is their habit, they will arrive atthe opening at the top and thence pass into the receiver above, where as 'many of them may be collected as desirable. From time to time the receiver is taken 0E and the top removed or other opening uncovered and the flies drowned, burned, or otherwise destroyed.

In order to operate the revolving disk, the spindle is connected with any suitable clock-- work mechanism inclosed in the base A and operated by spring or other power. A suit; able fan as ati2, regulates the movement of the clockwork and limits the speed of r0ta= tion, so that the disk will move slowly enough not to frighten the flies and prevent their lighting thereon; The apparatus thus con structed is very efficient for the purpose.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. A fly-trap consisting of a cage having an opening in the top, a receiver into which said opening delivers said cage and receiver hav-- ing a ring at the bottom with a cut-away por= tion, a base having a horizontal surface upon which the ring rests, a horizontally-revoluble disk having its axis of rotation in line with the edge of the ring whereby its periphery is continually carried through the space in the ring into the interior of the cage, and outwardly therefrom, a closed segment located too within the cage having its center approxi mately .intheliheofthe axis of the disk, anopen space in one side provided with a flexible brush beneath which the disk is carried within the cage to remove the flies therefrom.

2.- Awfiy-trap consisting of a. -.cage-and re-1 ceiver with connecting opening between, a ring at the bottom of the cage having a cutaway portion, a base having a horizontal tabs ular surface upon one portion upon which the cage and receiver are supported, a clockwork and regn lating vmeohanism; contained-inn the other portion, a diskcmounted upon-a shaft driven by the clockwork, said shaft standing approximately in line with the edge of the cage-whereby the disk revolves withj-a eeofte 

